Two Specific Questions - AdSense Stats.

Coverage UP, Removing Ads and putting them back on...

[leebow]

Hi guys,

Can anyone help - as I really have tried everything I can think off.

In August 2015 - my Coverage went up from about 66% (which it has been for years) to 100% -- I don't think I changed my site, and I don't think I added any more ads -- but I don't keep records, and I have no backups to look though. I've tried going through with the wayback machine to see changes - but I cant see any. Could anyone tell me what to do to find out what's changed. Screenshot example: [i.imgur.com...]

My next problem/question is this -- I've had the same async AdSense code on my site for years (from when the async code came out). On the 14th of Oct 2015 - I tried the new response ads - I kept these on my site for 2 days, but the earnings were down a lot compared to normal - so I changed them back to my old ad code - BUT... my earnings never recovered, my CTR/Clicks have dropped by over half since this date. I've tried EVERYTHING - but obviously something has changed. - Please look at this... [i.imgur.com...]

If anyone could please offer any advice - that would be amazing.

I've started to look for a company or freelancer who could even offer professional advice, but how do you know who you can trust.

Thanks again for any help! :)

[netmeg]

I don't know of any way in specific as to why your coverage went up except maybe AdSense changed something on their side as far as available ad inventory. About all you can do there is contact support and see what they say.

As for your second question - first of all, two days is not long enough to determine that your responsive ads are not effective. And the fact that your earnings stayed down after you removed them make it even more likely it wasn't the responsive ads that caused your decline. A lot of people declined this year for a lot of different reasons. I think it may just be a coincidence of timing.

If you're still down anyway, you might want to try the responsive ads for a couple weeks or a month. But in a general sense, it'd probably be good to start thinking about auxiliary methods of monetization. It's becoming more difficult to rely solely on AdSense; I'd never recommend it.